Deniz Esin Bozoklar, the daughter of the Sema-Abdullah Bozoklar couple, who was born at KSÜ Health Practice and Research Hospital in 2021, was incubated in the neonatal intensive care service because she was born at a low weight. On May 26, 2021, nurse Hazel Dırık Bağrıyanık allegedly committed violence against the baby while trying to draw blood.
During the 14-minute bloodletting process, which was also recorded by the hospital's security camera, Bağrıyanık hit Deniz Esin Bozoklar's head several times and squeezed her leg, and then the baby came to a standstill.
After the images emerged, Hazel Dırık Bağrıyanık was arrested, and the file was sent to the Forensic Medicine Institute in the case where she was tried with a request for up to 3 years in prison for the crime of 'intentional wounding'. Due to contradictions between the incoming reports, the file was sent to the Supreme Council of the Forensic Medicine Institute by the court.
The supreme committee of 45 people examined the file and sent the report it prepared to the court. In the report prepared unanimously by the board, it was noted that the nurse shook the baby while caring for him and made repeated blunt traumatic actions to the head and face, but no pathology was detected in the head in ultrasound examinations, there was no cranial MRI (brain MRI) dated the incident, and there was no evidence of skull fracture, intracranial bleeding or widespread axonal damage. The report stated that there was no medical evidence that the neurological condition detected during the post-hospitalization follow-up of the baby was the result of blunt traumatic actions performed by the relevant nurse:
"The neurological picture detected in the baby's post-discharge follow-ups is an expected situation in premature babies with profound developmental delay, and when all forensic and medical documents are evaluated together, it is evaluated that it is due to the current constitutional condition (prematurity, intrauterine development retardation). No causal link can be established between the actions taken by the relevant nurse and the neurological picture detected in the baby. After examining the incident-dated radiological images, medical documents, camera records and expert reports, the baby's intensive care follow-up dated 26 May 2021." "Since it is evaluated that the traumatic action applied to the left thigh area by the relevant nurse during the operation caused a shaft fracture in the left femur, it is unanimously considered that the injury is not a situation that endangers the life of the minor, the effect on the minor is not so mild that it can be eliminated with a simple medical intervention, and the fracture is of a nature that will seriously affect the life functions."
Father Abdullah Bozoklar reacted to the report. Stating that there was no diagnosis of any disease regarding his daughter until the violence was committed, Bozoklar said:
"He writes about the brain concussion, he writes about the head concussion, he writes about the violence for 14 minutes, and when you look back, he writes about the breaking of his leg and that it affected his life functions, 'but we could not establish a causal link.' So this is a ridiculous report, a report that seems to be mocking us. It is a report signed unanimously by 45 people, but in all of the above items, everything is said about the incident, it is attributed to the patient's prematureness. There is no neurological follow-up from birth until the violence, there is no use of epilepsy medication, there is no preliminary information about cerebral palsy. There is no diagnosis, there is nothing. You come back and say, 'Your child was born prematurely, these diseases would have happened anyway.' These diseases were a 1 percent chance, a 2 percent chance. So, were all premature children born so far like this?”
Mother Sema Bozoklar said, "In the incoming report, you write down the severity of the fracture of the child's leg, the severity of the blow and violence inflicted on the child, everything. As a result, you put the responsibility for this on my child, saying 'An MRI was not taken'. Should this child have said, 'Do an MRI for me'? What you should really investigate are the people responsible there, not my child. Investigate the people responsible there, why didn't they do an MRI on my child, why didn't they investigate in detail? I think these are because of my child." "before," he said.
